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PREFACE.
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writings, placed this treasure at my disposal.
On examination the volume has proved to be a retrenchment of Queen Mab, with a great deal of fresh writing—the first, second, eighth, and ninth Cantos alone being recognized by Shelley as worthy of preservation in the new poem thus constructed. The first and second are the substance of what he issued with Alastor in 1816 as The Dæmon of the World, a Fragment: the eighth and ninth are the substance of what he converted, no doubt in the year 1815, into a Second Part of
